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CKME A. KERN.g( THE GOLDFIELD TOWNSITE COMPANY] ^_L^i"CK ALv^Yw AYoungButSucccssfuiProspcc-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------A Prominent Mining Engineer Wiii Go Down in History as the tor and Miner. V E8S than four years ago thej! the camp, whiie at tbe present writing I a shaiiow depth in Hve we!is. The and Promoter. "Father ofGo!dfieid." ----------- H iand on which Tmtopah isi there are about 350 inhabitants, and townsite is ievei and protected on three _______ _______ To the popular mind the prospector B—^ built could not be sold for M a number of frame buildings have re I sides by mountains. It is near the When in robust health we tike to iell When the history of GoidHeid and is a rough, uncouth, bewhiskered indi cettts Three years ago, when; placed many of theteuts. There are mines, but not so close as to be dis about how little doctors know. We the stories of its wou<lerful mines are -victual, who follows the patient burro the townsite was laid out, the lot o<n ,over Hfteeu business establishments, turbed by blasting or disfigured by un cite au instance where one made a mis ! written in tbe years to come—and there over the mountains and lives on salt which Golden's 830.000 stone buildittigattd a newspaper is contemplated for'sightly dumps. take—and forget the many times they are many who believe its glories will pork and flapjacks until he makes a is erected sold for 815, but when Frank the near future. This shows how the The townsite is owned by the Gold are right. But when we get sick we be excelled by few gold camps the lucky strike, when he repairs to the! Golden bought it a year and a half ago town grew in its early and more or less'field Townsite Company, which was send for oue in a hurry, as then we world has ever kuown—the name of meare8t swell hotel and in a loud voice] he paid 810000 cold cash. uncertain days. With the bonanza formed October 36th, by the following more fully realize how dependent we ' Alva D. Myers will have a prominent ` orders "the best dinuer in the world—] Goldfield has a better showing at showings in the Combination and Jum weli known men: Harry Ramsey, A. D. aredegendentweare upon them and place as one who had a conspicuous u hundred dollars' worth of steak an t ----------------------------;------------------------------------^------------------------------—--------------------------------------------------------------------- how much more capable they are of part in showing up the possibilities of -eggs!" after which he is supposed I.< ! --------------------------------------------------------- ' ---------------------------------------------------------n treating sickness than ourselves. this great camp. -go out in the street and throw money] -%4, <- ... ^ * ' . . -.e' G-t It is so with mining engineersand Wheu others, inciudiug the partner to the birds. . , 7.' -* . - - . " , ` experts generally. Their mistakes are who was with him in the location of That may be the popular conception, * <**'*" T magtnHed and their successes fre the Combination, got "coid feet" and but this description would never fit ; _ quently ignored or ascribed to other pulled out for supposedly greener -George A. Kernick. He is the very an-; . , ` ' - * ` ^ causes. Helds, Mr. Myers stuck with dogged tithesis of the old prospector as he is ; ^ ,. * - Lucien L Patrick has probably made determination to the prospect, and to usually pictured. Quiet, reHued, self i . . \- ^: mistakes in his career as a mining en- him more than anyone else, perhaps, ia contained and smooth shaven he was j giueer, but, if so, his success with the due the credit of making the Combi- when he came to Tonopah in pursuit of; Combination miueat GoldHeld is suf ] uation the big mine it is today. This Hckie fortune, and now that he is well Hcieut to compensate. Of course we! can be trnthtully said without takiug on the roa^i to wealth, he still well- j all know what the Combination is now, ] one of credit from those whe were k^IHtTith!m GOLDFIELD, NEVADA, THREE WEEKS AFTER FIRST STRIKE olct'and t ?Tf 7" t ! f "" Kept at it witn maniereQt success un pect, and bouded it for what then ap- it was formed and given it the name til he came to Tonopah. "* peared a big price, but which subse which he selected—GoldHeld—as well George A. Kernick was born in the this date than did Tonopah at the same bo mines, to say nothing of the strikes Myers, T. D. Murphy, W. S. Elliott, quent developments have proved to be as to the town which sprung up as a re^ Province of Ontario, Canada, but wheu RRe, and it will surely make a great beiug made frequently in various parts L. L. Patrick, Geo. Winkler, R. C. a nominal sum. suit of the development of the mines. 7 years of age moved with bis parents camp. The townsite of GoldHeld has of the district, it requires no great Crook, H. O. Hall, Jas. H. Forman, Otherminingmenhavesincediscov- It was a compliment such as the big- to Western Canada,-where received hi.- ah ideal location and town lots are shrewdness to foresee, in the near fu- Thos. Ramsey and Elmer J. Chute. ered what a prize they missed and have hearted miners delight in paying to schooling Before he reached his 16th bound to increase rapidly in value as ture, a large town at GoldHeld and a Lots on Main street, 50x100, sell for deluged Mr Patrick with oHers to buy, their fellows whom they wish to honor year he started placer mining in the! the town grows. consequent enhancement in the value 850 to 8100, and on residence streets but he has refused all andgoneaheadinaspecialmanner Northwest Territory and has been min Three weeks before the accompany of business and residence lots. for$25aud 835, and at these prices of I ing or prospecting almost continually i"g illustration w,s mad. there were The town is a quarter of a mile from l^!nd!ngpurchase,s^' mffaddress " i* but two months since he ob-i ,; ^ tune people tn GoldHeld. At the time Rabbit Spring and there is plenty of Elmer J. Chute, C.E., Agent, GoldHeld, !taiued the bond on the Combination,' .. Rwas made there were 125 people in free water, it having been developed at Nevada. ! yet in that short time the prospect has! -------------------^m-------:— ---------—-I-.--—r---------------—— *----------------------*-------------—- been made a mine, estimated to be & ! R!QOS, COLLINS & LA LIME. ________________________________________________________________ .worth half a million dollars, with un-] ' jt ! ----------- v- - ^ 4-: limited possibilities from future devel ! t ^***^\ - ; Three mote likeable and popular iioys . opment. A T * \ ' than the above would be hard to Hnd— * ` The shaft is down 75 feet, is 5x8 feet ! HBgk, ]aud they deserve every bit of their pop. Ui4-*T< * ' I in dimensions and every pound taken r .. Mr. Crook is now within seeing dis- slmAtiig horejyears one of the most prominentciti- tauce of Easy street, being one of the is excellent. zens and merchants of that city, and a L—owners of the bonauza Combination, Dr. Williams is now in the East, warm personal friend and adviser of , , Hjgagk . .. . . . , t. , . . . . ' . . . ^ ^ . .. .. n -. . , , Mr. Myers is yet a young man, hav- besides having substantial interests in where she expects to mterest capital to president Lincoln during the war. - t. . . ,. . ' D. o , , . , .. . ^ .T-tut.. - - ing been born in La Grande county, ever since. He has covered consider- . Qy*-.' ^ Bull, Mohawk and other good develop the properties on a large scale. Lumen's Hrst mining experience was in ^ ^ but he is a thorough all- able territory, having mined and pros- at GoldHeld. Con's friends— writ c A rriMOAivv ^ q^r**y at Cleveland, Tenn., his father round miner and is also expert on the pected in California, Arizona, British ^ numbers them by the score- DR. WHITE WOLF & COMPANY having been the Hrst to introduce Ten- ^ and other processes of reduc- Columbia, Alaska and Nevada. ^ rejoicing over his good fortune. nessee marble. . T . . ^ _______—_______ Dr. White Wolf, Peter C.Kretz and Mr Patrick's 6rst mining of the '"goies. IuJuly, 1902, Mr. Kernick decided to M t .t- ^etricus nrst mining or the Alva spent his early vouth in Iowa try his luck in Tonopah and arrived DR. FRANCES E. W!LL!AMS precious metals was at the Col. Seller. Kanllnd ^ S went hareoutbe 18th day of that month. Y' ----------- ^^te ^7"f's^n ciZs and ^^^djill.,C.l. Laterh.w.nt ^Colorado. In 1890 h! went to the Mi Hrst good strike was in the Has- HasGood Properties at Go!dfietd other valuable claims at GoidHeid. t^^I^"lease"whh:h netted^M 000 in Coeur d'Aiene (Idaho) conntry, where brouck group of six claims at Goid H. La Lime A.Rigg. Ed. Ctiins . , - The Red Butte croon i. three tnnrth. ^ lease, which netted 8110,000 in he learned practicai mining in the old Mountain Thieis a hichcrade coid ^Dd Lone Mountain. ihelted Butte group is three fourths gyp months. Since then he has had tr-,L , a r<a i rr t : Mountain, ihmis a high-grade gold .eries and meats at GoidHeid and do of a mile east of Goiumbia mountain charge of good mines in various camns K^"** ^ Charlas Dickens mines. pr.po.itmn and the cia,m. were i^cat- Weighting. They are reason- Dr Frances E Wiiliam. is 60 year. ""1 has a 6Of.oti.dg. from thesur- includi^g the ^wett m!ne ^ the I" ^92 he went to Cripple Creek,where ed by Dr. McIntyre and Mr. Has ^ ^ price genial and"sauare"__a ' t. n. t t ^ facetif which assavsco from 81 85 to n r. ,i- , - . he learned the cyanide process and brouck hut Mr Kernick discovered price, genial ana square a of age, but she neither iooks nor acts laceur wtncn assays go from 8185 to Pachaatm district, and the Snowshoe , ... . . . , ^eol's^tm d ^l cooL. d °" Id ^^hi.ati.n that is bound to win. ,t.having spent week, going over every ^ P°r The company a... own. mines at Libby, Mont., where he had ."T* To*, ^t.Z lt w^TsZrte bf nry.Y=nT fo.t.f the ground in which she is in- ^ haif interest in ten claims adjoin- 125 men under Mm. From here he was .Mled to G,bb.ns- fore John McKane, representing iarge ^^ERT CORNEL!US CROOK terested at GoidHeid and Lone Moun- j"K ^e Combination on^the west Two The positions which Mr. Patrick has Pro^sJpb^t h^i b^n^proHt- capitai, became interested in the Has . - - T----- tain,and camping out in frontier style. ledges show on the surface which pan held during his twenty years'experi- ^ but he took hold of it and shortly brouck and took a bond—caiiing for a A Former Cowboy Who !s Now Mrs. Williams studied medicine after Roid fieeiy. The shatt on this property ence in mining offer conclusive proof turned failure into success. total valuation of $325^000—on a major- Mining With Success is now own ee an es owing is of his ability, and his reputation is when the Spanish war broke out AH. A . A . A I""""g TY<U! JULLCM. ... .....------extra good for a valuable mine. gnoh that men with canitaiararcadv ^ opamsn war orose out, ity of the stock. A go.diy portion of ----------- Dr White W.if is a haif breed Choc- T 7 Y - 7 ^r. Myers joined the volunteers, bnt this price has already been paid the Robert Cornelius Crook, or "Con" taw i^gan and practiced medicine for ^ ^ examination and ^ ^gt^ent was not ordered to the, owners. Crook as his friends caii him for short, eight years on the reservation before ^ ^ " ° energy, ^ont, he secured his discharge the But it is out of his interests at Gold- w&g a Christmas gift to his parents, he could write his own name, though ^ empere y aconservaism year. After receiving his dis- Held that Mr. Kernick wili probabiy having been born at Shelby, Ky., Dec. heis now weii educated. which Prevents him "Hying off the ^arge from the army, Mr. Myers make his biggest stake. InJuiyiast, ]25, 1863. He was bnt two years old, th^l^t^i^e^t handle. With all thM conwrvatiam, worked im varlomaeampa In New M.x- togetherwith C. D.Tayior and Geo. E. though, when his parents moved to g39§ nected with a iarge whoiesaie hardware owever, e is quic o ac in ^joer- Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Wash- McClelland, he located the JumhoNavaro county, Texas, and went into house in San Francisco. yP^Ds^8^iDS e Oregon, until he came to group at that camp, and it is develop- the cattle business. From that day to :S4 ?? Miss ^oel is secretary of the La possi 11 y o ai ure. ts trait was <ponopah in November, 1902. Soon af- ing into a genuine bonanza. Near the this Con has spent almost As entire HagS panv^wRh *headauartersl^7^°Market ^prominent y w en^ e ter coming here he secured an interest surface the ledge averages 8275 per ton Hfe on the frontier. He has punched Street, San Francisco. secured the option on the Combination in fo^ claims at Goid Mountain,which across 5 feet, whiie the whole drift at cattle or ran wagons for big outHts in --------—-*------------ j an ^ is su sequen an mg o t s he bas since soid, but he stiii owns a the 50-foot point is aii ore which aver- Old and New Mexico, Arizona and Ne- .wnggaSB THOMAS R. ROBiNSON. 7. ^ . group of eightclaimsciosetotheHas- 81,167.52 to ihe ton clear across. John vada, bnt for the past seven years has nice coming o eva a a year ago, bronckmine. McKane now has a controi of the Jum- been mining and prospecting in this H9&H3P1'' Robinson, mine and stock Mr. Patrick has familiarized himseif Onthel9thofMay, 1903, Mr. Myers bo under bond, bnt there is a fortune state, Alaska and British Coiumbia. broker, is one of the most popular with the formation and geological con- went to GoidHeid and with others io in it for aii the owners. During the past 13 years Mr. Crook Tonopah He has vaiu- Mtioim of Hie v^ons camp^ particn- ^e Combination group. After In addition to the above,Mr.Kernick has been aU.S. Deputy Marshal, and ***!e interests at GoidHeid, besides the^fore competent^ to judge of the making the location, he spent a few has a iarge interest in nineteen other one in that position is bound to have ^ possibilities of each. It is this thor- days looking for something better. Not claims close to the Jumbo and Combi- had some exciting times in the section HB8MMM)M8k<taaH<ui8MHHBnatH<a8 ; ough knowledge of conditions which Hnding it, he returned and in company nation groups,wbichshouidaddgreat- of the country where he has iived, but ] as^o<m as*presented^ opportunity withR. C. Hart started work on the ly to his weaith. Con is modest to a degree and refnses He has his eye on several other good Combination. They soon got good as . Mr. Kernick has been very fortunate to speak of these experiences A took her husband, who served as a navat of- properties and it is beiieved he wiii says, but in spite of the good showing in his mining ventures, but he made into his cairn, steady eye and deter-iHcer under Admiral Farragnt, iosthis soon put throngh another deal and re- Lpd the summer temperature, Hart's what he considers his best "Hud" when mined face, however, wi!i convince the fortnue in Florida. She has had a sue- %a 'Mjj}Sjs%)H) Cknnbi'nation^"'*'^"* success wi e pg^g[ extremities got chiliad and he he met Miss Dorothy Copeiand whiie student of human nature that he wiii cessful practice in Boston, Los Angeies Mr. Patrick is a memberof the Miz- soid his interest for 8300. Myers stayed the two were taking a course in assay- do bis duty without Hinching, no mat- and San Francisco, but of late has pah Ciub, and he and his charming with it, however, and was joined by T. iug in Portland, Oregon. Miss Cope ter what the danger. turned her attention to mining. are prominent in the social iife of D. Murphy. These two worked with a iand was born in Portiaud, where she Those who beiieve in signs say thati Dr. Wiiiiams came to Tonopah in Au-! 'ti<<[a< wiii and soon put the property in ouch is weii known and highly esteemed, if a fork is dropped ope may expect gust last and was greatiy impressed shape that L. L. Patrick was giad to and the friendship formed whiie both caliers. We don't know about that, with the wonderful mineral showing ^t'l"t"I"!"!"!"!"!"t"! ! t 't"!"!' ! t '!' ! t ! !offer 875,000 for it—a price which sub- were pursuing their studies culminat- but it is safe to say that if a man at- here and in the outlying camps. Goid- -i- --! sequent deveiopmen(s have proved ed in their marriage on Jnne 23d iasL tempts to run a bluff on Con Crook he Heid especially appealed to her and she pMggHSsy *`^**'-i- lA ..] was a mere song—and not one of the Itseemstritetosay that Mrs. Ker- may expect a "caii." became interested in a iarge number of T ** Patti brand either, nick is a gracious, lovable little woman, t Despite his serious cast of counte- promising properties here, incinding! *- Mr. Myers a!so owned the Bail Con butnootherphrasedeseribesherwith nanceConi8fuiiof fun,audtheprankstheFrances group,adjoiningtheJum-, -;- ! AML^*A -- [ R*^oup, which he soid to WingHeid, moreBdeiity. She is indeed a helpmate I of himseif and feUow-cowbpys on the bo; the Bonanza group, farther east; n . **! Heonessy and Horton, and at present toher husband and shares his hard- Pecos river would cause manyaiangh the Valley View, adjoining the town- j* --[he owns an interest in many promising ships with him—oniy she doesn't caii were there space to teii of them. When site; the August, adjoining the Combi- -j* I* claims close to the big properties, them hardships. She cannot see why he "roped" a chum one day as the !at- nation; and four others southeast from T Mr. Myers is one of the most popular living in a tent whiie on a camping trip ter was fording a creek and landed him town. There are a number of good- ,, p-r-.r-. p. men in the camp, being joliy and good- should be caiied "fun," while living in bottomsidedown in the cool water, it looking; ledges on these claims and t, - - 1 tiVL,LFf^'sEL.LP, iNEv. ** naturedatalltimes,and he is generous a tent in a new mining camp (until a was funny; but when next day the they wiii doubtless prove very vaiu- others in White pine county. He is a ] * in grubstaking others in the search for house can be bniit) should be caiied ohnm tnrned the triok and landed Con, abie with farther development. graduate of Santa Ciara Coiiege, and J. aA - - new Heids. He is a member of the ,* "hardship." And in this the writer be- simiiariy positioned, in a bnnch of cac- Dr. Wiiiiams is aiso interested in a ]i^themaHcf^ ^Tom !s mu^f intere^ed *F * * and the Miners' Union and en- Heves she displays good common sense, tns, it was very, very fnnny—to the gronp of claims at Lone Mountain,close in athietics and is catcher for the local $ !! joys the esteem of his brothers in both ii not wisdom. chnm. j to where the new railroad Wifi pass basebaii nine. '!-!<-!*-!"M-*I-!-!-i"!-*!-!**!--!--!-!-!-'! !--!-!--!-!-!-!. these organizations.